Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterest pill of all was the general Republican disapproval. A sort of "abominable noman" to Eisenhower loyalists in need of favors from the Federal Government, Adams was the tough cop many could admire but few tried to like. Now that he himself was in trouble, many remembered his relentless judgment against Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who once or twice solicited business for his efficiency-engineering firm on official Air Force stationery. Talbott and others had gone out complaining that the implacable Adams never gave them a chance to square up things, clear their names...
Delaware's hound's-tooth polisher, Republican John J. Williams, led a parade of five Republican Senators provisionally suggesting an Adams resignation. The other four: Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Michigan's Charles Potter, Maryland's Glenn Beall, Minnesota's Ed Thye. California's Bill Knowland tagged along, intoning that "the facts should be completely disclosed...
...Strathmore woolen mills and learned dinner talks on how other businessmen should imitate Owner Goldfine. Among the honored guests was one of Bernie Goldfine's oldest and dearest friends. New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams. Other New England politicians whom he warmly befriended: New Hampshire's Republican Senators Styles Bridges ("one of my very best friends") and Norris Cotton (who owns 10% of Goldfine's Lebondale Mills). Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne ("I knew him when he was mayor of Augusta"). Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo. "In picking winners." says Goldfine with...
...White House put so much behind-the-scenes heat on wavering Republican Congressmen (who voted 2 to 1 for the bill) that baffled Tariff Lobbyist Oscar R. Strackbein, after betting a month before on a victory for the protectionists, glumly observed: "I have never seen such pressure since the days of Franklin Roosevelt." In the last days before the floor debate, Republicans trudged into Dick Simpson's office to ask him to release them from their promises to vote with him. A vote against reciprocal trade, one explained, would cost him White House support for a bill that...
Though he is supposed to be serving as Senate spokesman for the Administration and the Republican Party, California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland has an apparently incurable habit of throwing his burly body in the way of Administration proposals. He persisted in his ways even after he became a half-lame duck by deciding to resign from the Senate and run for Governor of California next November. And his poor showing in California's popularity-poll primaries last fortnight failed to subdue him. Hours after he got back to Washington he blocked the Administration on the issue...